My DIY $140 NAS Build - The Perfect Solution?
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- After going over all the options, I decided building a custom NAS out of an old server was the best way for me to solve my photo and video storage issues. Come along with me as I walk you through the process of building this old machine into a cost effective, expandable NAS.
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0:00 - My Problem
1:01 - Option 1: External Drives
2:54 - Option 2: Pre-Built RAID
5:07 - Option 3: DIY NAS
5:43 - Step 1: Acquire Hardware
7:41 - Step 2: Assemble the Server
8:10 - Step 3: Set Up Software
11:26 - Step 4: Backup
12:22 - Final Setup
13:23 - Overview
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What’s your current storage solution?
I'm pretty sure you will soon want to try the Plex Media server on your NAS 😅. I got a I5-10500T for very cheap so I decided to build a NAS around it, keeping in mind I might want to upgrade to an Intel 11th Gen processor in future.
I’d be interested to look into that. The fun thing about doing it this way is I can always upgrade and change things
I'm running a HP Proliant Microserver Gen 8 with truenas scale it's running 4 hard drives in raid 5 all good.
You should look into LTO tapes. LTO-8 can store 30 TB on a single tape at a cost of around $0.002/gb and they are designed for archival storage as well.
The main barrier is the upfront cost of the tape drive which can be steep but worth it if you're doing this professionally.
I’ve looked into tape drives a bit. Seems like the best option for archiving and longevity. Definitely something I’m considering in the future
i’m running a DS 920+ which is a 4 bay Synology NAS. it’s set up for raid 5 with 18TB drives, so 54TB (50TiB) available. I would like to move to a 6 bay or 8 bay but I haven’t yet decided whether to buy or build. Your video was helpful, thanks.
Running truenas with 4tb wd red pro (4x). Hw; 4-bay mini itx nas with a pentium-g3240 I found for $100, then swapped in an i3-4160t cpu I got on ebay for $4. Eventually would like to scale up the storage and switch to a n100 mb for power efficiency.
That’s awesome. How do you like TrueNas?
@@DelaneyMedia So far it works, that's all I can hope for...going in blind, setting up the ZFS pool and enabling SMB share was fairly straight forward, configuring truechart apps to "see" each other was a bit of a learning curve. Watched a few tutorial vids, and now I'm 63.257% confident I know what I'm doing. xD
upgrade to 2.5g for like 70 bucks - switch and a couple nic and get 230mb/s - worth it before you decide to go to 10g #mtu
I’ll definitely consider that. Much cheaper than 10 gigabit
@@DelaneyMedia i recently got a sodola 2.5 switch - it has 2 10g also - using cat8 cable and realtek equvos (sic) nics - everything runs perfect - the cat8 will let you run 10g and 25g when you eventually upgrade but yeah going to 2.5 is smart with as much storage as you have - make sure to enable jumbo frames - 9000 mtu give a big boost (35%) and then you get the full 2.5 - do a followup
@@DelaneyMedia Given that even a single one of those hard drives can do well over gigabit speeds, the SSD wear isn't getting you much other than burning out an SSD. 2.5g may be able to show a difference, though Undraid is pretty slow compared to true RAID like you would have had from ZFS in TrueNAS. May as well use the SSD potentially for something useful.
Nah I got two Mellanox Connect-4 cards and a 25gb DAC cable for $90 on eBay. That speed will probably outlive his server. 2.5gb and 10gb just don't make sense if you're hardwiring 2 or 3 systems together.
Is that a SuperMicro 2U Server? Which model did you acquire?
good editing, woud like more talking in one go
TrueNAS has benefit over UnRaid of ZFS which has error correction and scrubs feature that can be set to run at certain intervals to verify your data
With other filesystems raid can tell you your data is corrupted on one of your drives but it can't tell you which drive has the error but with ZFS scrub it will find and correct any bit rot on your array
Unraid now has ZFS support. But I have been thinking about setting up a TrueNAS core, to play with.
@@lilkiduno Ah ok hadn't heard about that however I doubt that the main draw of UnRaid a not raid with parity drive would be useable on any ZFS array
If you are going to play with TrueNAS go for Scale. It's still free but is based on Linux rather than FreeBSD that is used for Core
yeah, duh I knew I wanted scale not core. I was multitasking and had a brain fart.
While I agree, zfs for Unraid isn’t probably what most people, including myself are going to use it for. However, it’s there.
Unraid is no longer a one-time fee unless you pay $249 for a lifetime license. They had to change their license structure recently so it is no longer as cheap to get in if you wanted it for life, but they do have yearly subscriptions that aren't as expensive.
Yeah, I started filming this video 2 months ago and I got in for their old pricing. It’s unfortunately changed now
All storage loses its index after a while. Leaving them on the shelf will degrade your storage. HDD last more than a year, while USB drives will die within 6 months. A SATA SSD may last 9 months before the data is corrupted. Install your hardware and run or search it. View docs and photos, play music or video every few months to save your data.
Don't forget 2 is 1 and 1 is none. Whatever you create just think you'll need to duplicate it because a NAS isn't a backup solution.
Yep, that’s why I’m using backblaze. Ideally I’d like to have another on-site backup but an online one will do the trick
no menditon of power consumption...
whatever u saved in hardware u will pay it 3 folds in energy costs , ddr2 systems is way too old , even a i3 6100 system which u can get for about same price would be way faster and also not be so inefficient that the energy bill would be the main cost , seriously ddr2 system, no ofense , highly highly not recommend anyone to do this
Yeah, this video is not for the average Joe working a 9/5 trying to care for your new family. This is for the person that can drop $2,000 to $5,000 or more without feeling it. That's ok, because some of us have it and some of us don't.
If you want as much storage as me or more, for sure. The nice thing about RAID is the scalability. You could buy 2 4TB drives for $300 and get all the same functionality.
Nice video, shame about the clickbait title.
$140 + $1880 + $60 is not a $140 NAS.
If someone buys a Synology box for $700, you would say they bought a $700 NAS. Someone doing this can spend as little or as much as they want on the storage, so I’m not factoring that in. The NAS itself is $140.
Don't forget 2 is 1 and 1 is none. Whatever you create just think you'll need to duplicate it because a NAS isn't a backup solution.
How much you pay for your energy? Looks like you massively understated the energy consumption cost or you get your energy from a nearby nuclear plant.
The "old server" approach is not super applicable since you NEED a basement, the noise is too loud. I prefer to go for used desktop hardware. Low energy consumption, low heat and low noise.
Yeah, you can absolutely do all the same things I did here but use desktop hardware instead. As for the energy, I live in Ontario where there are 2 nuclear plants that provide most of the energy in this area. I understand this could be a bigger problem depending on where you live, and definitely something I should’ve covered in this video. But at least where I live, I’ve barely noticed a change in my electric bill.
I had a similar setup like yours a few years ago and my energy bill went up a lot.so much I had to switch to a desktop setup which uses less energy .still great video
$140 diy with $475X6 hd thats not $140